Open AccessSoqotri Lullabies
Author(s) -
Leonid Kogan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
orientalistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-0738
pISSN - 2618-7043
DOI - 10.31696/2618-7043-2020-3-2-443-456
Subject(s) - history , decipher , linguistics , philosophy , biology , genetics
In the Autumn of 2019, the present author, in collaboration with Sarali Gintsburg and Vitaly Naumkin, was able to collect, decipher and analyze 18 lullabies in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (Island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen). Besides numerous text samples, the article contains a brief history of the previous research, a systematic comparison between the newly gathered texts and those published by David Heinrich Müller in 1905, as well as some comparative remarks pertaining to the Old Babylonian lullabies – the earliest known specimens of this genre.